This is the true story of a family forced to live halfway across the
world from their homeland. Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband Carl,
lived in Germany before the Nazis forced the couple to flee with their
two daughters. After finding Backwoods Farms in Vermont, Alice wrote
this memoir about their time there building chicken coops and breaking
up duck fights. Despite endless work, brutal winters and melancholy, she
discovered that they had found a home.